Nacho opened the scoring in only the third minute at the Santiago Bernabeu before goals from Toni Kroos, Achraf Hakimi and a Cristiano Ronaldo double put the result beyond doubt before the half-time whistle.

Nacho agrees it was probably Madrid's finest 45 minutes of football in 2017-18 and he hopes the standard is maintained at the Club World Cup next week.

Asked if it was their best half this term, he said, as quoted by AS: "Maybe. We had total dominance of the game in the first 45 minutes. We wanted to keep it going in the second half.

"Just like the other day against Borussia Dortmund [in the Champions League], we spoke about going out strong, to try to dominate. We did that in the best way; the reaction of the team was to fight until the end.

"Sevilla are an amazing team who are always going to be fighting going forward. The objective was to keep a clean sheet and get goals."

2 - Sevilla are the first opponent Nacho scored against in two games for Real Madrid in La Liga (4 goals scored in the competition, 2 against Sevilla). Reliable pic.twitter.com/TXq8Ue4ReR